DocumentCode
1255439
Title
Vertical cavity lasers with tapered oxide apertures for low scattering loss
Author
Hegblom, E.R. ; Thibeault, Brian J. ; Naone, R.L. ; Coldren, Larry A.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA
Volume
33
Issue
10
fYear
1997
fDate
5/8/1997 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
869
Lastpage
871
Abstract
The authors have fabricated vertical cavity lasers with tapered oxide apertures. The taper of the oxide aperture creates a more lens-like element within the cavity which, as predicted from theory, almost eliminates scattering losses in small devices with a 2 μm diameter opening
Keywords
laser cavity resonators; optical losses; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; scattering loss; tapered oxide aperture; vertical cavity lasers;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19970610
Filename
592622
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